The Loner

1. An Echo of Bugles

William Colton rides into a town one month after Appomatox. Inside, there is ...

2. The Vespers

Colton rides into a town where a man he met during the Civil War is now a min...

3. The Lonely Calico Queen

Colton finds a letter on a dead man that leads him to search for a girl named...

4. The Kingdom of McComb

One day William Colton rode into a town where a young Quaker boy was being le...

5. One of the Wounded

Drifting through Kansas, Colton signs on as farmhand to an embittered woman c...

6. The Flight of the Arctic Tern

While traveling to the Arctic Tern Ranch to attend a childhood friend's weddi...

7. Widow on the Evening Stage

A renegade Apachie war party attacked a wagon train and killed all twenty mem...

8. The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's

Colton goes to visit an old friend from West Point, but discovers that Abner ...

9. The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing

Colton becomes a deputy to a bungling sheriff.

10. The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove

While traveling, William Colton meets an ex-Union soldier who fought in the w...

11. Westward the Shoemaker

Colton takes under his protective wing a timid Latvian immigrant venturing we...

12. The Oath

William Colton rides into an inn one dark, rainy night. As soon as he goes in...

13. Hunt the Man Down

Colton is conscripted into a sheriff's posse tracking a wily old mountain man...

15. The Ordeal of Bud Windom

Bounty hunter Colton becomes embroiled in domestic diplomacy between alleged ...

16. To the West of Eden

Trekking across an unforgiving desert, Colton is unhappy to be joined by a ha...

17. Mantrap

A wounded Colton finds a safe harbor with a lonely prairie woman while on the...

18. A Little Stroll to the End of the Line

William Colton is deputized as a United States Federal Marshal after they rec...

19. The Trial in Paradise

William Colton traveled to the abandoned town of Paradise after a bartender t...

20. A Question of Guilt

While sleeping in his camp one night, Colton woke up to hear a man calling hi...

21. The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part I

In an abandoned salt mine, Colton engages a dying young guitar-playing gunfig...

22. The Mourners for Johnny Sharp: Part II

Colton follows instructions left by the late Johnny Sharp to have the four pe...

23. Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

Colton is shot and left for dead in a stagecoach robbery, then finds a little...

24. Pick Me Another Time to Die

Colton sees a sheriff killed, then is knocked out when he examines the body, ...

25. The Burden of the Badge

A band of reformed outlaws enlist Colton to help them fight a cattle baron.

26. To Hang a Dead Man

Colton helps a sheriff hunt down the bandits who burned a town down.